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Bill Koechling
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full-time photographer for 50+ years, listening to your stories... “The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” –Robert Doisneau
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · Dec 8
"If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds." –Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr.

© 2012 William Koechling
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 2d
children under an intimidating sky

© 2021 William Koechling
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 2d
garciarosalind.bsky.social, I had hoped the Dodgers would be playing our Cubs but alas, it is not to be. I'm wishing your Dodgers the very best as they pursue "the ring"!

© 2018 William Koechling
The Chicago Cubs play the Florida Marlins at Wrigley Field in Chicago on May 9, 2018. In this black and white image a pitcher has just thrown a pitch to the batter.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 2d
Her art studies began at a very early age.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 2d
I'm wishing all the runners in today's Chicago Marathon good luck as they run this beautiful day through the 'war zone'.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 3d
She was elected and should go to work. Johnson doesn't need to have her sworn in.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 9d
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” –Nelson Mandela
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 10d
Just please don't tell us he's your father.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 10d
A must read from anthropology professor, James Greenberg:
"The country I grew up with — flawed yet still striving — feels almost alien now. The values that shaped me, liberty, equality, the freedom to dissent, no longer seem to have a place."
open.substack.com/pub/jamesbgr...
Mourning America: Quantico and the Drift Toward Military Rule
How Trump and Hegseth’s Quantico speeches blurred the line between politics and war, recasting dissent as insurgency and democracy as a battlefield
open.substack.com
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 12d
I'd guess that was their plan all along. They were waiting for the right moment which may be soon.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 12d
some Cubs excitement around tonight...
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 16d
*Benny*
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 16d
Someone needs to add the Binny Hill theme song to this, PRONTO!
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 16d
truth
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 16d
Thanks for showing the beauty of light’s lower registers.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 18d
On our walk tonight...

As humans we don't often deserve the beauty that surrounds us.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 19d
James Comey was indicted today.

James Comey - 2017
(photo taken from tv screen)
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 19d
James Comey - 2017
(photo taken from tv screen)
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 20d
It's more convincing when he says that in B&W.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 21d
I really miss Hedberg.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 21d
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” –James Baldwin

© 2006 William Koechling
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 21d
Enough people have given him the reason to believe he's a king including the Senate, much of the House, and the Supreme Court. This is a lot of crazy things but it's not delusional.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 21d
I'm dating myself but I'm thinking of Crazy Guggenheim...
Excellent hat choice. Also, his hitching a ride to school will cut miles on your car. The Boy is backward AND forward thinking today.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 22d
Oh, I thought that was the Kirk memorial. It's hard to keep up.
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 22d
Who needs science when you have rumors?
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Bill Koechling @billkoechling.bsky.social · 22d
It’s Happened: The United States of America IsNo Longer a Democracy newrepublic.com/article/2007... via @newrepublic.com
It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
Trump’s prosecution order to Bondi gives up the pretense. And the country is headed swiftly into unknown territory.
newrepublic.com
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